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Month: October 2014
Moms and Dads: It’s Time to Play “hide the fiber”
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – We all need it but few of us get enough of it. Celebrity dietitian has some easy ideas for getting more fiber into your family’s diet.
To Improve Oral Health of Adults with Developmental Disabilities, Improve Support for Caregivers
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BOSTON (October 1, 2014) – Despite a policy focus on expanding access to care for adults with developmental disabilities, this vulnerable population continues to have significant dental disease.
Why the Common Cold Worsens Asthma
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Researchers have discovered why asthma often worsens when sufferers catch a cold. The findings suggest that blocking an inflammatory molecule called IL-25 could benefit asthmatics during the cold season.
High Blood Sugar May Worsen Spinal Cord Injury
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Scientists have discovered yet another reason to curb sugar consumption: high levels of it in the blood may make recovery after spinal cord injury harder.
Nursing Mothers, Say Goodbye to Boring Color and Cutesy Baby Prints!
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Nursing is an important mother-baby bonding experience, but you shouldn’t feel trapped in boring, colorless or cutesy nursing ponchos day after day. Connect with baby and rock amazing personal style with Hip Baby Wrap Nursing Ponchos.
Offering Fertility Preservation Option to Young Boys with Cancer
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Oct. 1, 2014 – Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is one of a few centers in the world – and the only one in North Carolina – offering young boys with cancer the opportunity to participate in a research study focused on fertility preservation and restoration.
Almost $500 Million Could be Saved Annually by Making Subsidized Housing Smoke-free
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Prohibiting smoking in all government subsidized housing in the United States, including public housing, would save an estimated $497 million per year in health care and housing-related costs
What to Anticipate After You’ve Heard Those Dreaded Words ‘you have breast cancer’
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For some, getting a mammogram is a routine. For others, maybe not so. But in either case, there’s a certain amount of nervousness the patient experiences as she awaits the results.
Celebrating Pharmacists: A Core Part of Your Health Care Team
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, DC – October is American Pharmacists Month, and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) wants you to “Know Your Pharmacist-Know Your Medicine.”
Treatment of Substance Abuse Can Lessen Risk of Future Violence in Mentally Ill
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. – If a person is dually diagnosed with a severe mental illness and a substance abuse problem, are improvements in their mental health or in their substance abuse most likely to reduce the risk of future violence?
CDC and Texas Health Department Confirm First Ebola Case Diagnosed in the U.S.
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed today, through laboratory tests, the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States in a person who had traveled to Dallas, Texas from Liberia.
After Hospital Discharge Care and Readmission Rates
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In a trial involving patients at high risk of hospital readmission or death, use of a virtual ward model of care (using some elements of hospital care in the community) after hospital discharge did not significantly reduce the rate of readmission or death up to a year following discharge, according to a study in the October 1 issue of JAMA.